• OAF is the Oracle Applications self-service development and deployment platform
• 100% Java & XML, middle-tier application framework and services for the rapid development & deployment of HTML based applications
• Follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
• OA Framework is built on a flexible architecture
• Metadata-driven UI components, flows and business logic
• Extensible UI and business logic

• Collects information about the components and its attributes of the page to be augmented from MDS
• Stores the augmentations in a java augmenter data schema
• Creates dynamic controller classes by extending the Controller of the page to be augmented
• Binds this controller information into MDS as OA Extension
• Notifies the application cache about the state of the page has been modified

• Can zoom from OAF page to any OAF Page or Form
• List of Values
• To change an input field to LOV field or Combo Box
• To restrict the List of Values in a Combo Box
• Table Region
• To add a tooltip to a column of table
• To sort a column of the table

Advanced add actions feature

All above augmentations type can be done on a condition basis

Search all the augmentations done on the instance

Export and Import all (or) any augmentations

Global Zoom is used to zoom other application pages

Rules  Augmentation

• Display Option to hide or show the component with True (or) False values
• Not Editable option to make the component to Not Editable or Editable with True (or) False values
• Required option to make the component mandatory or not with values Yes (or) No
• Title Option to change Label of the component
• Change Case Option to change the case of input value of the component with values UpperCase (or) Lower Case

Zoom Augmentation

• To Zoom any Java Form (OAF Pages) or Core Form
• Pass Parameters from components of source document to components of target document

List of Values Augmentation

• List of Value Option to convert an editable component to LOV component (or) to restrict existing list of values
• Combo Box Option to an editable component to to Message choice component
• Invokes augmentations on an Event
• On Page Load
• On Change of a component
• On Focus of a component
• On Exit of a component
• Define the above options
• Static Value to constant values list
• Query to have a list
• Table Validation Value Set
• Independent Value Set

Table Region Augmentation

• Set a tool tip to a selected column of a selected table of the page
• Sort a selected column of a selected table of the page
• Invokes augmentations on an Event
• On Page Load
• On Change of a component
• On Focus of a component
• On Exit of a component

Advanced Actions

• Set Item Value action to default value to a editable component
• Display a Message to User
• Execute SQL
• Open a web page for a given URL
• Open a Core Form
• Open a Java Form
• Navigate to an Item on the Form
• Set Item Property to change UI behavior
• Set Profile Value
• Send Email

Augmentation Conditions

• Conditions to augmentations can be done in all types of augmentation
• Sequence Number in order which condition to be evaluated
• Left type
• Right type
• Join Type

Left Types of Conditions

• Field
• Query
• Profile
• Application
• Responsibility
• User
• Organization

Right Types of Conditions

• Constant
• Query
• Field
• Profile

Join Types of conditions

• =
• <>
• <
• >
• LIKE
• NOT LIKE
• IS NULL
• IS NOT NULL
• IN
• NOT IN

Sequence Number of Condition

• Same Sequence number for OR Condition
• Different Sequence number for AND Condition

Search Augmentations

• To search all augmentations done on the instance
• Audit information with creation and updation details
• •Option to show all/Hide all details
• Criteria
• Created by
• Created between From and To
• Augmentation Type
• Document Name
• Enable / Disable all the augmentations of the selected pages to delete all the augmentations from MDS as well as Java Augmenter meta data

Export and Import Augmentations

• To Export all (or) restricted augmentations with criteria
• Document Path
• Document Title
• Type
• Create by
• Created on
• Event
• Import the augmentations into an instance with following options
• Do nothing when an augmentation already exists
• Duplicate the augmentation when it exists already
• Overwrite the augmentation when it exists already

Global Zoom

• Global zoom link will be available across all the OAF pages of an Instance
• To zoom a web pages of other application
• Zoom can be invoked on a basis of conditions too.

Features

• Rapid Augmentation tool to customize Oracle EBS OAF pages for once own business needs / user preferences
• Condition based Augmentations
• Can do augmentation of DFF Components in multiline as well in a page
• Durable: Augmentations survive upgrades and patches
• All augmentations can be turned off/removed from Instance any time
• Can Implement on test system, export and import to production system